Aikido, music, social justice, macaroni and cheese, cable TV series, ornithology.
People interested in, and practitioners of, Aikido; people who ride their bikes to work; people who enjoy music; people with leftie political leanings who are pissed off about the state of this country and the world.
A lot of things between early 60's and now: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Stooges, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Velvet Underground, Can, David Bowie, T-Rex, New York Dolls, Roxy Music, Genesis, King Crimson, Yes, Kraftwerk, Peter Gabriel, Ramones, Stranglers, Buzzcocks, Clash, Damned, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, Television, Killing Joke, Minutemen, Fugazi, Pixies, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, Throwing Muses, Wire, Brian Eno, Meat Puppets, REM, Unwound, Stereolab, Decemberists, Modest Mouse, Pavement, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave (with Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party), Bauhaus, Cure, Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, Galaxie 500, Swans, Joy Division, New Order, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Interpol, Radiohead, etc.
Thin Red Line, Manhattan, Chariots of Fire, Spinal Tap, Blade Runner, Brazil, All Monty Python.
The Office (UK), Six Feet Under, Battlestar Galactica, Daily Show & Colbert Report, The Wire.
Noam Chomsky, Mike Watt, John McEnroe